Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems

✍ Scribed by Professor Yu-Chi Ho PhD, Professor Qian-Chuan Zhao PhD, Lecturer Qing-Shan Jia PhD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Performance evaluation of increasingly complex human-made systems requires the use of simulation models. However, these systems are difficult to describe and capture by succint mathematical models. The purpose of this book is to address the difficulties of the optimization of complex systems via simulation models or other computation-intensive models involving possible stochastic effects and discrete choices. This book establishes distinct advantages of the "softer" ordinal approach for search-based type problems, analyzes its general properties, and shows the many orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency that is possible.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Ordinal Optimization Fundamentals....Pages 7-56
Comparison of Selection Rules....Pages 57-92
Vector Ordinal Optimization....Pages 93-112
Constrained Ordinal Optimization....Pages 113-124
Memory Limited Strategy Optimization....Pages 125-136
Additional Extensions of the OO Methodology....Pages 137-188
Real World Application Examples....Pages 189-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-317

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Computational Intelligence; Electrical Engineering; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Operations Research/Decision Theory